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‘Rick Gray Jr.: Portland’s dominance harms the state
The slender majority in Wallowa County’s recent Greater Idaho referendum makes the county the 12th in Eastern Oregon ...
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Capital Chatter: Why are Oregonians so cheap?
Cheryl Myers didn’t have to take a pay cut last month when she became Oregon’s acting secretary of ...
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Writers on the Range: A boondoggle on the Colorado
You’d think the Earth shook recently when the three states of California, Arizona and Nevada announced they’d reached ...
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Other views: Excursion train deserves dedicated management structure
Recent articles in the Chieftain and the La Grande Observer with regard to the current status of the ...
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Randy Stapilus: Bill summaries should be readable
Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, and leaders of the Oregon Senate Republicans who in effect have staged another quorum-denying ...
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Roger Hockett: Adventures in a really big, beautiful place
I lived in Texas for two years in the Navy in the early 1970s and I remember one ...
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Writers on the Range: A teenager who was killed should still be with us
If you think that race is only an issue in the country’s biggest cities, consider a murder trial ...
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Nils Christoffersen: County needs affordable homes for its workers
People working in and serving Wallowa County, whether in our hospital and clinics, restaurants, retail and local businesses, ...
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Other views: Collaboration is key to solving challenges
Collaboration is an Oregon value. Even though each community is a little different, the theme of collaboration was ...
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Capital Chatter: Stunning revenue forecast alters conventional wisdom of Oregon economy
Surprise! Oregon has nearly $2 billion extra to spend during the next six weeks. A stunning state revenue ...